Jonathan Carter's presentation to the IoT Austin group on June 14 2016 detailing what the Amsterdam group has done over the last 5 years

1. Jonathan Carter
co-organizer of the Amsterdam IoT metup group “sensemakers”
co-founder of Glimworm and Glimworm Beacons
initiator of the Amsterdam iBeacon and IoT Living Lab “The beacon mile”
IoT mentor at Startup Bootcamp
A brief history of the sensemakers
Amsterdam IoT meet up

2. 2011

5. 144k - 300%
AQE - kickstarter project of the year
2011

6. London
+ New York
+ Amsterdam
+ Madrid
+ Barcellona
Attacking an issue people care about

7. Citizens
Citizen Scientists
Makers
Sponsor
Air Quality Egg - Scorecard

8. * Sponsors want publicity
* Makers want to make (anything)
* Citizen Scientists want to measure
(almost anything)
* Citizens want results

9. Stichting Appsterdam is a non-profit meta-organization that provides
common ground for all App Makers, regardless of platform, occupation,
or business model, in Amsterdam and beyond.An App Maker is a person
or organization who contributes to the creation of apps, be they
engineers, designers, businessmen, lawyers, or marketeers.An app is a
piece of software that transforms its hardware to provide a complete
productized experience.
Appsterdam is the world’s most advanced infrastructure for App Makers,
by App Makers. Our goal is to bring App Makers together, and our
mission is to support the interests of App Makers worldwide.We have
built Appsterdam, the world capital of apps, to establish a center of
gravity to our industry, and to provide a place in the world where all
App Makers can gather.The intent is to build a structured ecosystem of
cooperating App Makers with Amsterdam as its center.
We help App Makers understand and practice community values, such as
craftsmanship, quality, diversity, cooperation, and professionalism.

10. Holland is an alternate reality! Sometimes I think that what the rest
of the world take seriously they don't and vice versa. It is a social
society and has a sharing economy. Its people get along well with
each other and collaboration is built in even before birth
Geographically it is flat and small and most people live in the centre
of the country. It has pretty much no poverty and high speed
connections everywhere. it is the perfect place to work on Iot and
Smart city solutions. … oh and most people speak 4+ languages.
Holland

11. FabLabs in the Netherlands

13. Meetup dedicated to creative, advanced and human-centered
Internet-of-Things, sensor(networks), electronics/hardware, open
hardware/source and hardware startups. We get together once a
month and discuss and listen to presentations on Internet-of-Things
and related subjects. We are hands-on: We do Internet-of-Things,
with Arduino, RaspberryPi, BeagleBone, Intel Edison, etc.
Membership : 3500
Started : 2011 (5 in September)

14. 2015
2013
2011
AQE, followed by several related projects, many members
also appsterdammers
Pachube left the scene, location moved to Glimworm (jc)
Started regular schedule
2016
Amsterdam Smart Citizen , LoRa, LoRa, LoRa
location moved (with glimworm) to the MT
Widened team to 5, join with MV, start with Water sensing!
Timelines
2014
Built up to 3500 members,
Smart Citizen Kit (Waag+Barcelona)

15. AQE v 2 - from Barcelona
2014

16. 2015

17. In March 2015, Waag Society and partners have established the Amsterdam Smart
Citizens Lab. It empowers citizens to crowd source and share data about their
environment with the aim to understand the workings of the city and enhance the
quality of their lives. Therefore, we embrace the idea of Smart Citizens , who use open
technology to build engagement, and share knowledge, and trust. Apart from helping
citizens, it will help existing measurement bodies (like GGD Amsterdam and RIVM) to
extend their data gathering networks, and possibly come up with innovative solutions
that can scale across Europe (possibly beyond).
2015

18. 2015

19. Citizens
(partcipants)
paid €35
Quality of swimming water
Air Quality (Chimney, Dust & particals)
Sound (in the city)
Light pollution (in the city)
Indoor air quality
Soil
Temperature (in the city)
Dirt and garbage
Enablers
Waag
HvA
Wageningen UR
Ams Ec Bd
Waag
RIVM
Sensemake.rs
more…
2015

20. 2015

22. 2015

23. 2015

24. 2015

25. The Beacon Mile
2015

26. 20152015

27. 2016

28. Jonathan MauriceCasperManon
Organising Team
2016

29. Tools
2016
Slack Github fablabs.io

30. Programme
2016
If you attend all the monthly setups for a year you should have learned
something new about abut all aspects of making IoT products from home
grown hobby projects to mass production of commercial products
Example talks we have had in the last 12 months include :
LoRa (multiple) , ESP8266, what is the difference between a microprocessor
and a micro controller, tips for kickstarter, PCB manufacturing end to end,
injection moulding, Wolfram , Node RED, MQTT, User led design, Member
project presentations(multiple), security on an Arduino using “Salt” ,
Introduction to laser cutting, Bitcoin, Windows10 IoT edition, citizen science
updates (multiple) , Hands on Watson (and more…)

31. Notable members and projects

33. 2016
Water buoy
Project
just started
want join?

34. 2016
Maybe you have
different issues?
can we collaborate?

35. A bit about
europe

37. If you want to get involved with IoT in Amsterdam
if you want to find an IoT startup in Amsterdam
if you want to discuss IoT
call me . . .
@jonathanrcarter jc@glimworm.com